Tag: webkit

-webkit-font-smoothing

I’m not a big fan of the default text rendering in WebKit, in my opinion, it’s too heavy. There used to be a workaround where setting text-shadow would make the text thinner, but updating to Snow Leopard rendered that useless. Then someone found another hack using -webkit-text-stroke that seemed to work nicely, but it wasn’t […]
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Rounded corners on images, CSS-only

Admit it, even though rounded corners are widely seen as overused, you love playing with border-radius. A common complaint is that you can’t use that CSS3 property on images. Define any value, and the images will still display as nature intended: straight corners. For a project I’m working on, it would’ve been really nice having […]
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iPhone CSS Tips for Building iPhone Websites

With the rapid rise in mobile browsers, it has probably never been more important to ensure your sites can be handled on these platforms. By far one of the most popular such browsers is Mobile Safari on the iPhone – this is one of the easiest browsers to develop for: it runs on Webkit (meaning […]
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CSS Transitions 101

Despite people’s expectation of change and movement on the screen, CSS and HTML have few controls that allow you to design interactivity, and those that exist are binary. A link is either one color or another. A text field is either one size or another. A photo is either transparent or opaque. No in-betweens from […]
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Going Nuts with CSS Transitions

I’m going to show you how CSS 3 transforms and WebKit transitions can add zing to the way you present images on your site…
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A Crash-Course in Advanced CSS3 Effects

Webkit is one of the few – if only – browser engines that really embraces advanced CSS3 effects. Unfortunately, this presents somewhat of a double-edged sword. We get to play with all of these amazing effects – such as CSS masks, reflections, transitions, animations, scaling, etc. – yet, we can’t truly implement them into our […]
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Text Rotation with CSS

An article about text rotation using just CSS. Thankfully, many of the popular browsers of today support the ability to rotate HTML elements. Even better? We can make it work in Internet Explorer back to version 5.5 even…
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CSS Gradients via Canvas

CSS Gradients via Canvas provides a subset of WebKit’s CSS Gradients proposal for browsers that implement the HTML5 canvas element. To use, just include css-gradients-via-canvas.js anywhere on the page. Unlike WebKit, this implementation does not currently allow gradients to be used for border images, list bullets, or generated content. The script employs document.querySelectorAll() – it […]
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Nice Web Type – Pure CSS text gradient no PNGs

So there you have it. A pure CSS text gradient with no PNG images necessary. Of course, it only works in Safari. Get your mind into techniques like this now, and you’ll know the logic when other browsers catch up…
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